committals
Acts of institutionalizing
Committals is the plural of committal, which refers to the act of committing someone or something to a particular place or state.
Most often it describes sending a person to prison, a psychiatric facility, or a grave: The judge ordered committals to the state hospital for three defendants.
Committal can also mean the formal consignment of a body at a funeral: The committal took place at the cemetery following the church service.
Confinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- detentionTemporary official holding
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
- custodyProtective care or control
lockup · remand · confinement · correctional · penitentiary · holding · arraignment · sentencing
Putting a body underground
- funeralService honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- entombmentPlacing in a sepulcher
sepulture · inhumation · cremation · laying to rest · cemetery · graveyard · casket · urn
Formal entry into medical care
- sectioningDividing into segments
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
- mental healthEmotional and cognitive well-being
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
assessment · evaluation · facility · ward · patient · admission · certification · compulsory
Formal binding promise
- promiseCommitment to act
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
allegiance · undertaking · covenant · bond · assurance · declaration · avowal · troth
prison
Confinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- detentionTemporary official holding
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
custody · lockup · remand · confinement · correctional · penitentiary · holding · arraignment · sentencing · court order
interment
Putting a body underground
entombment · sepulture · inhumation · cremation · laying to rest · cemetery · graveyard · casket · urn · pallbearers
hospitalization
Formal entry into medical care
- sectioningDividing into segments
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
- mental healthEmotional and cognitive well-being
institutionalization · assessment · evaluation · facility · ward · patient · admission · certification · compulsory · observation
oath
Formal binding promise
- promiseCommitment to act
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
devotion · allegiance · undertaking · covenant · bond · assurance · declaration · avowal · troth · word
eulogy
Tribute for the dead
vigil · wake · procession · tribute · honoring · last respects · obsequies · rites · mourning · remembrance
committalsreleases
Lets go or publishes
discharges · liberations · freedoms · acquittals · emancipations